Archive for October, 2009
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For investors, 2009 has been a year spanning the full range of emotions, from the depths of fear and panic in early March, to bullishness that verged on euphoria by late summer. The year’s events, coming on the heels of the turmoil in late 2008, provide important lessons for investors about [ Read More → ]10.31.09
Investing Lessons of a Wild Year
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Q: I’ve been made redundant and I’ve lost the death in service benefit I had. What should I do?
A: If that protection is important to you because you have dependants, talk to a financial adviser. There are lots of options and they are not necessarily expensive.
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10.31.09
Pound Notes with Melanie Wright
£NEARLY half of parents with teenage children feel under pressure to pay their child’s mobile phone bills,
according to a survey from Tesco Mobile, who have launched a Cap Your Mobile Spend pay-monthly contract which switches to pay-as-you-go when a limit is reached.
£THE …
Read the original article at Mirror
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Christmas – and the inevitable festive spending binge – is just around the corner.
But a Moneysupermarket.com survey claims two-thirds of us will not have enough cash for all the presents and partying and will turn to credit cards instead.
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BREAKING NEWS: West Palm Beach man killed in Coral Springs crash Click for story UK plans banking shakeup, to sell 100s of branches By RAPHAEL SATTER Associated … Read the [ Read More → ]
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NEW YORK—Have you checked the interest rates on your credit cards lately? Odds are they’re going way up. That’s because credit-card companies are rushing to raise rates and tack on extra fees ahead of a law slated to take effect Feb. 22 that is supposed to limit such moves in the [ Read More → ]
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DES MOINES - Workers in more than half of US households will likely be unable to retire at 65 at the same lifestyle they enjoy today, a new study says. The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College says its latest analysis of household financial status shows 51 percent are [ Read More → ]
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An Auckland woman has been lumbered with a $320,000 debt after she claimed she was conned into buying a house at an over-inflated price. Helen Rutherford bought the house in Meadowbank for $300,000 more than its worth. Rutherford was taken to the High Court at Auckland by ANZ National over a loan [ Read More → ]10.31.09
Woman hit with $320,000 debt
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To anyone interested in finance, the past couple of years have been fascinating. A major credit crunch, bank collapses, government interventions, volatile markets and the world on edge - it will be talked about for decades. While all this was going on, I was writing a book: Letters to Aston: Lessons [ Read More → ]
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BREAKING NEWS: West Palm Beach man killed in Coral Springs crash Click for story Boehner: GOP has right answers on health care By WILL LESTER Associated … Read the original [ Read More → ]